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Build Guides

PC Part Picker is the one stop shop for computer parts. It pulls options and prices from multiple vendors, includes a compatibility check, and has lots of great filters.

Logical Increments is a guide to ensure that you are not over spending on one component, only to be held back by cheaper components in your build. Logical Increments also has all sorts of handy build guides with detailed explanations for the decisions they make.

/r/PCmasterrace Pro Tips

A series of tips and tricks for PC builders and gamers

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a software repository for Windows, all of your most popular software can be installed and managed through Chocolatey.

ChocoUpdater

A Kaisev gui application meant to be run on startup or as a scheduled task that ensures your Chocolatey packages are up to date.

Ninite

Ninite is a batch downloader and installer for popular, free software. Ninite installs your software in the background, and turns down bundled software. A great tool for getting a new computer up to speed

Security Suite

A list of software that we recommend for maintaining your computer's security

Rufus

A program used to create bootable USB drives. It's simple and it works.

Visual Studio Code

A free code editor with a wide range of intuitive extensions and an excellent out of the box interface. Based on the open source vscode project from Microsoft.

Custom Resolution Utility

"Custom Resolution Utility (CRU) allows custom resolutions to be defined for both AMD/ATI and NVIDIA GPUs by creating EDID overrides directly in the registry without dealing with .inf files."

Open Hardware Monitor

An open source hardware monitor, showing you in real-time your voltages, temperatures, clock speeds, and more. Pretty much identical to HWMonitor.

CrystalDisk Info

Don't let the anime girls confuse you, this is an excellent tool for checking and monitoring the health of modern SSDs and Hard drives.

KDE Connect

Interconnects your phone and your computer, allowing shared notifications, inputs, and SMS handling.

KeePass

An open source password manager, similar to LastPass or BitWarden, but stored locally on your computer. This is great for people who don't want to trust an online service, and don't want to go through the steps to setup their own BitWarden instance.

SysInternals

The SysInternals tools suite, including the famous AutoRuns tool

Element

Element is a Matrix client. Matrix provides decentralized, free, and open source chat infrastructure. If you liked IRC, but want a more modern platform, Element and Matrix is your next step.

F-Droid

It is difficult to use Android without getting caught up in the Google infrastructure. The default app store, the Google Play Store, forces you to use a Google account, and many users can't imagine using Android without it.

F-Droid is an open source app store, hosting all open source applications, largely serving the same function as the Google Play Store. F-Droid is a must if you want to use Android without a Google Account, and in our opinion a valuable tool even for those who do want to use the Play Store.

For the apps below we will list the F-Droid links whenever they are applicable. Unfortunately not all of the applications we use are available on F-Droid, but most of them are.

Aegis

Aegis is our preferred TOTP Code generator. Aegis is a superior alternative to Google Authenticator, it is fully open source, supports backups (which is absolutely critical to a TOTP generator!), and has a variety of configurations.

IronFox

Mozilla is jumping the shark a bit with Firefox, adding features that are unwanted and unneeded. IronFox is a fork of Firefox with a priority on privacy, security, and usability. Ironfox of course supports some of our recommended add-ons Ublock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, and Decentraleyes on your Android devices!

IronFox isn't available in the standard F-Droid repos, you will need to add their repository or use Accrescent or Obtanium.

NewPipe

Simply the (second) best YouTube experience on Android. Fast playback, video and audio downloads, picture in picture, and of course fully open source!

PipePipe

My currently preferred fork of NewPipe that includes enhancements such as SponsorBlock

KDE Connect

Interconnects your phone and your computer, allowing shared notifications, inputs, and SMS handling.

BitWarden

Our recommended password manager. BitWarden is a freemium model online password manager with a solid extensions and Android app, and is also open source and self-hostable

AntennaPod

AntennaPod puts the 'free' in 'insane amounts of free podcasts'.

Easer

Easer is an Android automation tool, designed to perform tasks in response to predefined logic and events. At the time of writing Easer is rough around the edges, but it shows incredible potential

LabCoat

An excellent companion application for GitLab, allowing you to view commits, manage issues and groups.

WiFi Analyzer

An open source tool to turn your Android device into a powerful WiFi analysis tool, allowing you to determine ideal channels, identify access points, plot signal strength, and much more.

Catima

A dirt simple application for storing bar codes. Store your loyalty cards, your library card, or whatever other bar codes you need, but don't need taking up precious wallet space.

OSMAnd~

Offline maps and navigation backed by OpenStreetMap data

It is best to install OSMAnd~ from F-Droid, this way you get all of the features of Plus without paying an exorbitant fee.

StreetComplete

A clean, very easy to use, gamified app for updating and improving OpenStreetMap data.

Signal

The secure chat app, this is the only application that we trust to provide actual secure communications.

BitWarden

BitWarden is our recommended password manager. A password manager is a service or program that stores your passwords, and gives you tools to help manage and use them.

uBlock Origin

You will never see the Internet the same way again. uBlock Origin is a blocker that will block advertisements, trackers, and known infected websites.

uBlacklist

Block sites or domains from showing in your search results

SponsorBlock

Have you ever wished that you could block ads that are baked into YouTube videos? Well now you can with an open-source application and a community driven database.

HTTPS Everywhere

HTTPS Everywhere is an add-on that forces HTTPS. If you have read our articles on security, then you know that HTTPS is a connection type that prevents people from intercepting your traffic. HTTPS everywhere forces HTTPS connections wherever possible

Privacy Badger

Privacy Badger is an add-on designed to stop people from tracking what you do on the Internet. Specifically advertisers will try to track what you do and where you go so they can sell that information.

Privacy Badger is meant to protect your right to consent to your information being tracked across multiple sites.

Decentraleyes

Decentraleyes cuts out unnecessary requests to third party services, and opts to host common resources locally instead.

Web Server Security Tools

Use Let's Encrypt to create free, trusted certificates for any domain you own

Use the Qualys SSL Server test to get a detailed rating of the security of your SSL configuration

Use IIS Crypto as an easy way to set your cipher suites in IIS, IIS Crypto makes re-configuring cipher suites one of the easiest jobs you can do.

Sucuri provides a free scanning services to check a website for vulnerabilities. It is a great way to to find basic security flaws with your website.

Linuxserver.io

A community for self-hosting on Linux, including a wide variety of custom docker containers and guides

VaultWarden

A BitWarden compatible server that's lighter on resource usage and self-hosting friendly

Nextcloud

Nextcloud is an open source, self hosted file sync and storage provider comparable to Google Drive. Nextcloud is robust, highly configurable, and supports LDAP. A fork of OwnCloud

Jitsi Meet

Jitsi Meet is a videoconferencing service that is open source, and self hostable. Also available as a freemium service.

GitLab

GitLab is an open source and self-hostable Git Source Code Management system and DevOps toolset, an excellent alternative to GitHub.

Authentik

Authentik is a single-sign-on provider. Definitely overkill for most self-hosting setups, but with great compatibility, great documentation, and the infinitely useful proxy providers it does make management a lot easier.

Home Assistant

Highly flexible and extensible on-premise home automation suite, compatible with almost all of your store bought and home brew IOT devices

JellyFin

Home media server for music, movies, and more

QBitTorrent

QBitTorrent has a web interface! This is great for a seedbox or if you want to download to storage on your home network while you're away

Super Smash Bros Project M 3.6

Project M is a mod of Super Smash Bros Brawl designed to bring back the speed and competitive edge of Melee

Mupen64Plus QT

Provides a GUI for Mupen64Plus. Mupen64Plus is great for any home theatre setup that features Nintendo PowerGloves. If yours doesn't, you'd better use mupen64plus-qt as well

LazyWinAdmin GUI

Check out my fork of the LazyWinAdmin GUI tool, a tool designed for Windows administrators and Service Desk to quickly and easily manage remote computers.

Update-FTPExternalIP

A small PowerShell script for updating the external IP used by the Windows IIS FTP service.

Drive-Mapper

A bash script for Linux/Systemd systems to manage mapping and unmapping of SMB shares based on availability of the host

SCCM Client Center

An absolute must-have for managing SCCM endpoints. It's hard to imagine working in an SCCM environment without this tool, it will make your desktop support team better, faster, and stronger.